Paul Alapat

Financial Economist and Investor. Former Chief Product Officer and Member Executive Committee at Acuity Knowledge Partners

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
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Investor, Jumbotail
Sep 2024
Jumbotail is Indias leading B2B marketplace and New Retail platform, serving thousands of mom & pop stores (“Kiranas”). Jumbotail ecosystem has 4 in-house, proprietary platforms - B2B online marketplace, Supply Chain & Logistics, Fintech for SME Lending, and Retail platform that powers its J24 branded convenience grocery stores. Jumbotail transforms traditional unorganised kirana stores into J24 branded modern convenience grocery stores, owned and operated by kirana entrepreneurs, powered by Jumbotails New Retail platform and playbook consisting of J24 consumer branding, in-store GoldenEye retail technology, data driven product selection and merchandising insights, integrated supply chain with daily store fulfilments, Greencard loyalty program and payment solutions. Our vision is to organise the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science and design. We are building products, platforms and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Our market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. We are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. We are a passionate team driven by our sense of purpose to solve a critical real world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that we are building. The work you will do at Jumbotail will impact real lives and bring a lasting positive change for the next billion people of India. We promise a fun, fast paced ride with some of the smartest people, with full of opportunities to learn and grow, and leave a legacy. Come join us, make your one life count! Write to us at mission@jumbotail.com
Investor, Yara Technologies
Mar 2024
Our products are designed from the ground-up using the guidance of our partnering education institutions and the ingenuity of our team, to solve real world problems faced by these institutions. Twitter: https://twitter.com/YaraTechnologi1 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2VbjMeopLFfqgkqDvo4K7A/featured
Investor, Simyog
Nov 2023
SimYog’s mission is to enable "Agile for Hardware". Our flagship product ‘Compliance-scope’ (CompScope) is a “Virtual EMI/EMC laboratory” for predicting Radiated Emissions (RE), Conducted Emissions (CE), Radiated Susceptibility (RS) and Conducted Susceptibility (CS) compliance tests. Front-loading EMC at the early design stage increases product competitiveness and saves delays in time-to-market or canceled projects.
Investor, Infilect
Oct 2023
Infilect is a pioneer in Visual Intelligence for worldwide Retail. With its global footprint, Infilect partners with Retail Brands and Retailers to help them super-charge their supply-chain and in-store operations. Infilects SaaS products, that are based on patented AI and Image Recognition technology, provide exceptional speed, accuracy, sales lift, and cost savings to its enterprise customers. Infilect believes in the power of AI and Image Recognition to free humans of mental and physical drudgery so that they can do more with their time and capital. Hence, Infilects products augment and empower the humans in the Retail Supply-Chain with automated Image Recognition. Infilect also believes in making "net-positive" impact in the world and contributing towards environmental sustainability. With this belief, Infilect solves large-scale & systemic problems with real-time & actionable AI solutions.
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Investor, Jumbotail
Sep 2024
Jumbotail is Indias leading B2B marketplace and New Retail platform, serving thousands of mom & pop stores (“Kiranas”). Jumbotail ecosystem has 4 in-house, proprietary platforms - B2B online marketplace, Supply Chain & Logistics, Fintech for SME Lending, and Retail platform that powers its J24 branded convenience grocery stores. Jumbotail transforms traditional unorganised kirana stores into J24 branded modern convenience grocery stores, owned and operated by kirana entrepreneurs, powered by Jumbotails New Retail platform and playbook consisting of J24 consumer branding, in-store GoldenEye retail technology, data driven product selection and merchandising insights, integrated supply chain with daily store fulfilments, Greencard loyalty program and payment solutions. Our vision is to organise the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science and design. We are building products, platforms and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Our market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. We are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. We are a passionate team driven by our sense of purpose to solve a critical real world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that we are building. The work you will do at Jumbotail will impact real lives and bring a lasting positive change for the next billion people of India. We promise a fun, fast paced ride with some of the smartest people, with full of opportunities to learn and grow, and leave a legacy. Come join us, make your one life count! Write to us at mission@jumbotail.com
Investor, Yara Technologies
Mar 2024
Our products are designed from the ground-up using the guidance of our partnering education institutions and the ingenuity of our team, to solve real world problems faced by these institutions. Twitter: https://twitter.com/YaraTechnologi1 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2VbjMeopLFfqgkqDvo4K7A/featured
2023
Investor, Simyog
Nov 2023
SimYog’s mission is to enable "Agile for Hardware". Our flagship product ‘Compliance-scope’ (CompScope) is a “Virtual EMI/EMC laboratory” for predicting Radiated Emissions (RE), Conducted Emissions (CE), Radiated Susceptibility (RS) and Conducted Susceptibility (CS) compliance tests. Front-loading EMC at the early design stage increases product competitiveness and saves delays in time-to-market or canceled projects.
Investor, Infilect
Oct 2023
Infilect is a pioneer in Visual Intelligence for worldwide Retail. With its global footprint, Infilect partners with Retail Brands and Retailers to help them super-charge their supply-chain and in-store operations. Infilects SaaS products, that are based on patented AI and Image Recognition technology, provide exceptional speed, accuracy, sales lift, and cost savings to its enterprise customers. Infilect believes in the power of AI and Image Recognition to free humans of mental and physical drudgery so that they can do more with their time and capital. Hence, Infilects products augment and empower the humans in the Retail Supply-Chain with automated Image Recognition. Infilect also believes in making "net-positive" impact in the world and contributing towards environmental sustainability. With this belief, Infilect solves large-scale & systemic problems with real-time & actionable AI solutions.
Investor, Acuity Knowledge Partners
Jul 2023
Acuity Analytics delivers enhanced performance and productivity to over 850 of the world’s leading financial services firms and corporates, operating as a trusted partner for over 23 years. We are a team of over 7,800 workflow experts, domain specialists, and pioneers in AI-driven transformation. Our scale, security, and global reach across 28 locations give clients efficiency and confidence. Together, we enable better decisions that deliver enhanced performance. Acuity Analytics, the trading name for Acuity Knowledge Partners, is owned by global private equity firm Permira with Equistone as a minority shareholder.
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